Just a few days later, Peoples and colleague Michael Blood twisted an AP-GfK poll already thoroughly cooked with oversampling of Democrats into an indictment of the Tea Party movement, using its results to go after “its unyielding tactics and bare-bones vision of the federal government” while making an unsupported blanket claim that the public was going “sour on the movement.” That’s a real howler, Steve. An August 2012 AP-GfK poll shows about the same level of support for the Tea Party as two years ago. If that translates into voter turnout as it did in 2010, over one-third of voters in the presidential election will have Tea Party values. Meanwhile, Tea Party-driven insurgent candidates for U.S. Senate are leading the Republican Party towards what appears to be a likely U.S. Senate majority by the time the dust settles in November. I’ll bet most readers are unaware of that sea change.

In January, Peoples didn’t understand how Romney could criticize Obama’s stewardship of the economy “despite a declining unemployment rate and the creation of 200,000 jobs last month.” The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate at the time was 8.5 percent, in an economy which was then and still is the worst since FDR extended the Great Depression for eight years.

A month ago, Peoples dishonestly reported that Romney’s vice-presidential running mate Paul Ryan spoke to “hundreds of supporters” at a rally at Miami University, Ryan’s alma mater, in Oxford, Ohio. The truth: The Secret Service estimated the crowd at “about 5,500.” A Cincinnati TV station claimed it was “over 6,000,” while noting (which Peoples naturally didn’t) that “a whole line of people were (sic) turned away, because there wasn’t enough room” at the outdoor venue.

Finally, at the Democratic National Convention, Peoples, along with co-conspirator Julie Pace, began a chain of clumsy reports intended to cover Obama’s keister over the initial removal of both God and a reference to Jerusalem as Israel’s capital from the party’s platform, followed by their hasty and tyrannically forced re-insertion. The petulant pair initially acted as if the only people outside the convention hall who cared enough to complain about the omissions were Republicans, and made no mention of the fact that Democrats fraudulently pretended, over the vocal objections of roughly half of those present, that two-thirds of the crowd approved the re-insertion of the omitted terms — when they clearly didn’t. A later report by Pace and another AP reporter contended that Obama “intervened directly to get the language changed” and that he was wondering, as if unaware, “why it (the word ‘God’) was removed in the first place.” After Politico, of all places, exposed Obama’s original claim of ignorance as a lie, designated AP fixer Jim Kuhnhenn whitewashed all references to what Obama did or didn’t know beforehand.

There are far too many acts of omission, commission, and distortion in Steve Peoples’ body of work to shrug them off as sloppy or inadvertent. His continued employment as a political reporter at the Associated Press, along with at least a dozen others whose records are arguably no better, demonstrates that what was once a proud news organization has become the Obama campaign’s house organ, i.e., the Administration’s Press.

Along with having a decades-long career in accounting, finance, training and development, Tom Blumer has written for several national online publications primarily on business, economics, politics and media bias. He has had his own blog, BizzyBlog.com, since 2005, and has been a PJM contributor since 2008.

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paul_unalaska

Mr. Blumer, what else would we expect from a public sector union ‘news provider’.

Their union, ‘News Media Guild’ as mentioned by another PJM contributor SHOULD have a hammer and sickle for their logo.

The Ap’s bias is HEEAAVVY in every article, imo.

Go to the Ap’s chat rooms, I believe they’re called ‘The Vine’ or something similar.

So what else is new? The media has employed this tactic for awhile now. Jay Carney does it daily at 1 PM. Throw the truncated “quote” out there, then issue the “correction” late enough, and buried deep enough, so that the original story has had plenty of time to marinate in the minds of readers. It does the job it’s intended to do, and the so-called “correction” gives them a fig leaf to cover their naked bias.

It’s all very well to advocate, ah, renovating a duplicitous journalist’s anal anatomy, but the real question is how. They enjoy the protection of the very media they use to propagate their deceits, and special exemptions from vulnerability to libel suits in the absence of definitive proof of malice.

Thank you for providing this and thank you Tom for following through with Zombie’s excellent recommendation.

It’s time these journalists get to feel the heat of the arson they create and leave for others to extinguish.

Long before Zombie wrote the article, I’ve been advocating the same thing, but never getting much support in the suggestion. These cretins in the “progressive” media have for too long hid behind a firewall, penning the most vicious of lies without any constraint.

Let them answer for lies and the propaganda personally, without aid of a firewall.

PJMedia could do everyone not vested in Obama a favor. These types of articles should become common place, complete with personal picture of the villain, their background, and any previous attempts at spewing rank propaganda.

Steve Peoples is probably starving on AP wages. But he knows his clip-file is his ticket to the Big Time.

Goggling this moussed-up, low-level operative’s work is a laugh riot. Here’s a hilarious sample from June 5, 2012 piece, ‘Romney’s (non) Military Service Faces New Scrutiny’:

“On a stage crowded with war heroes, Mitt Romney recently praised the sacrifice ‘of the great men and women of every generation who serve in our armed services.’ It is a sacrifice the Republican presidential candidate did not make. Though an early supporter of the Vietnam War, Romney avoided military service at the height of fighting…”

Hey, but wait, here’s Steve’s third paragraph, inserted by an editor?

“President Barack Obama, Romney’s opponent in this year’s campaign, did not serve in the military either. The Democrat, 50, was a child during the Vietnam conflict and did not enlist when he was older…”

Then Steve resumes attacking Romney. Steve Peoples, You are laugh-out-loud obvious. And now you’re getting credit for your comedy.

The fact is: Romney speaks the truth,
“Entitlements are through the roof”
The GAO* HAS ALL THE PROOF,
Fraudulent, deceptive POLLSTERS!]

The POLLSTERS, say, “BO’s already won!
Now watch him bring a glorious sun,
But WE SEE WHAT HE’S ALREADY DONE!
Traitors and liars–POLLSTERS

The POLLSTERS need a lengthy rest,
From the socialists that they love best,
And, lacking Truth, THEY’E LOUSY GUESTS!
GOOD BYE POLLSTERS!

Copy Freely

* GAO = General Accounting Office.http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obamas-abject-failure-on-entitlement-reform/2012/04/23/gIQAMzqkcT_blog.html
“Key Quote” = “Taken together, the trustees’ and GAO reports remind us of one of Obama’s most significant domestic failings: his lack of will to address our entitlement programs that are central to a real reduction in our national debt.”
POINT: Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have “hit the overspending nail on the head”—we reduce wisely; improve productivity vigorously; or we fail MISERABLY. So much for the FRAUDULENT CLAIM THAT GOV. ROMNEY HAS NOT BEEN FORTHRIGHT—he and his V.P. pick have been SOUNDING THE FISCAL ALARM FOR YEARS! We either hear it; or the Republic falls and fails. About 47% of Americans refuse to even admit this is a problem meriting discussion and resolution.

THE MONIES “UNDER THE TABLE” HAVE BEEN SO HUGE AND THE PROMISES OF FUTURE FRAUD FUNDS SO GREAT THAT NOT A SINGLE POLLSTER CAN BE TRUSTED AT THIS TIME.

WE MAKE THE NEWS WITH OUR PATRIOTISM; FAITH IN GOD; AND OUR DEMAND FOR HONOR AND TRUTH IN GOVERNMENT AND THE MEDIA. POLLSTERS BE DAMNED!

Fine, but what are the tactics to surpress this media bias after Bam has been flushed?
The MSNBC type media will make the hostility toward Bush seem mild. Every Romney statement, every Romney decision will be attacked by these schmucks.
How do we confront this hostility in the context of the 1st Amendment?

Fine, but what are the tactics to supress this media bias after Bam has been flushed?

Declining readership and declining viewership are having an impact.

Although some so called news outlets would apparently rather go down in fiscal flames than give up spewing the propaganda.

If America isn’t smart enough or strong enough to see the truth in Romney’s observations as to the entitlement/big government/redistribution mentality driving the Obama administration or even the observation that Palestinians don’t want “peace”, then we’re already toast.

Re #9:
What, precisely, is wrong with a shit-list or ten? Everything Romney says will be distorted by the usual suspects, who lie by commission, omission and instinct, without fear of contradiction or consequence.

So… take the fight to them for once. [Oh Good God, no, we're Republicans!]

Press credentials are easy to revoke, and interviews with a lying ignorant enemy who hates you and your values are strictly optional. Access is the lifeblood of the media. Cut it off and watch them wither. AP, Politico, Media Matters, NYT, WaPo, all the Alphabets and many more are vulnerable like never before.

Easy enough to back up blanket bans with specific names: Steve Peoples x 5,000 more. Post ‘em on the door like Luther. Plus insults: “Like Clint, I’ll get a fairer hearing than from the Carmel PIne Cone than from Andrea Effing Mitchell”. And abuse… and ridicule …and boycotts…and endless nasty publicity…and you get the picture.

If you can’t think of a hundred responses to ‘McCarthy!’, ‘Witch-hunt!!’ and ‘Hollywood Blacklist!!!’, well, you’re really not trying. Start with the *four* freedoms of the first amendment…backed up by the second amendment.
What do you think little Georgie Snuffleupagus is going to do?

WOW, if families with incomes of $200,000 to $250,000 are middle-class, my family must be POOR. I wonder what government programs we might be “entitled” to? If anyone wants to send a contribution to my kid’s college fund, please send cash to . . .

Romney and Obama’s take on who makes up the middle class is not the same. Obama thinks everyone is middle class, including the working poor and people on entitlements. That’s why he constantly panders to the “middle class” even though the middle class, who tend to be the economic producers, including blue and white collar works, vote primarily Republican. The exception to that trend are those blue collar workers who’s salary and benefits are tied to union extortion. Of course, if Obama told the truth, that persons living completely on entitlements, who are not retired, are actually “the poor,” those person would “feel bad about themselves” and not vote for President Beyonce.